Nevada State Prison Inmate Case Files
Floyd Loveless
Floyd Loveless was executed at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City on September 29, 1944. He was the youngest person ever to be executed at the Nevada State Prison, he was 17 years old. Loveless was convicted of killing Elko County constable A.H. Berning on August 20, 1942. Loveless had escaped from the Indiana Boy's Home in Plainville, Indiana on August 15, 1942. He had been placed in the home in July after having committed over twenty crimes including rape at gun point. He was only 15 when he escaped and murdered Berning. Loveless and another inmate in Indiana, Dale Cline made their escape out of the Midwest and drove across country. They stole many automobiles and burglarized several homes. The pair held up a service station in Nebraska. Cline and Loveless separated in Nevada, Loveless stole a car and was stopped in Carlin, Nevada by Berning who was on the lookout for a stolen automobile. Loveless shot Berning twice and abandoned his body in the desert. Even though there were pleas to save his life because of his youth, Loveless was executed before his eighteenth birthday.
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